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China claims it is developing a 66 satellite network that will enable it to globally track hundreds of millions of shipping containers in real time. (interestingengineering.com)

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Drilling the deepest hole in history: Unlocking geothermal energy (newatlas.com)

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Second-ever privately funded space craft touches down on moon (news.sky.com)

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Waymo testing Zeekr in Phoenix (lemm.ee)

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I don’t think it’s news that warm is starting to use Zeekr, but this is the first one I’ve seen on the road.

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A noninvasive brain stimulation device has shown promise in treating depression, PTSD, and addiction. (medicalxpress.com)

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Researchers at Imperial College London have reported that an AI-powered scientific tool developed by Google accomplished in just 48 hours what took them nearly a decade to solve and verify. (www.techspot.com)

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The lacklustre performance of ChatGPT 4.5 provides further evidence that the era of steady pretraining scaling is over. This has many implications for AI governance. (www.tobyord.com)

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China and the US are taking divergent approaches to commerciazing AI (aiproem.substack.com)

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Scientists identify 'inflammation' gene that hastens aging (medicalxpress.com)

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541,000 paid driverless Waymo rides in California last month (bsky.app)

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Apptronik signs bold deal to let Apollo humanoid robot build humanoids (interestingengineering.com)

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Sanctuary AI Equips General Purpose Robots with New Touch Sensors (youtu.be)

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The Engineers that EVs Made Expendable. At Ford, combustion engine experts used to be rock stars. Not anymore. (spectrum.ieee.org)

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People are forming relationships with AI chatbots. Some of these are purely professional, others more complicated. (www.technologyreview.com)

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Alibaba's Wan2.1, an open-source suite of powerful video generation models that outperform SOTA open-source & closed models such as Sora on key benchmarks — while generating videos at 2.5x the speed. (wanxai.com)

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MIT team takes a major step toward fully 3D-printed active electronics (news.mit.edu)

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Singapore's biggest bank DBS to cut 4,000 roles as it embraces AI (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Gibber Link is a language protocol for AI Agents making phone calls to each other. (devpost.com)

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We gave an AI a Rorschach test. What it saw in the inkblots offers a window into the human mind (www.bbc.com)

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The Rise of AI in Robotics: 2025’s Breakthroughs in Physical AI (www.forwardfuture.ai)

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Never Use Washing Machine 🧺 Try Air Powered Laundry Jet - YouTube (youtube.com)

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This Autonomous Drone Can Track Humans Through Dense Forests at High Speed (singularityhub.com)

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OpenAI’s Sora Filmmaking Tool Meets Resistance in Hollywood (www.bloomberg.com)

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The developers of one of the most advanced biological modelling AIs, Evo 2, have made it open-source. (github.com)

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This 65 page paper gives more details on Evo 2.

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AI belonging to Anthropic, who's CEO penned the optimistic 'Machines of Loving Grace', just automated away 40% of software engineering work on a leading freelancer platform. (self.futurology)

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Dario Amodei, CEO of AI firm Anthropic, in October 2024 penned an optimistic vision of the future when AI and robots can do most work in a 14,000 word essay entitled - 'Machines of Loving Grace'.

Last month Mr Amodei was reported as saying the following - “I don’t know exactly when it’ll come,” CEO Dario Amodei told the Wall Street Journal. “I don’t know if it’ll be 2027…I don’t think it will be a whole bunch longer than that when AI systems are better than humans at almost everything. Better than almost all humans at almost everything. And then eventually better than all humans at everything.”

Although Mr Amodei wasn't present at the recent inauguration, the rest of Big Tech was. They seem united behind America's most prominent South African, in his bid to tear down the American administrative state and remake it (into who knows what?). Simultaneously they are leading us into a future where we will have to compete with robots & AI for jobs, where they are better than us, and cost pennies an hour to employ.

Mr. Amodei is rapidly making this world of non-human workers come true, but at least he has a vision for what comes after. What about the rest of Big Tech? How long can they just preach the virtues of destruction, but not tell us what will arise from the ashes afterwards?

Reference - 36 page PDF - SWE-Lancer: Can Frontier LLMs Earn $1 Million from Real-World Freelance Software Engineering?